Thunar-shares-plugin issue ...

[CharlesV]

There does appear to be an issue with thunar-shares-plugin and an issue in code. The error that thunar throws is "‘net usershare’ error 255"

I have verified that this error happens on MX23.4 and is outlined in these places as 'the issue'...

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=16099
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/thunar-shar ... 5/93591/16

it appears that something needs to be changed in the shares.c file

- argv[1] = "-l";
+ argv[1] = "--long";

This bug shows as resolved, however I am still seeing it. I cannot find an MX code set for thunar to check that, anyone have any insight to this one ?

Thank you

[m_pav]

The shares.c file looks like the type found in the source code.

Seems the folk at Manjaro found a way to patch it.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/thunar-shar ... 5/93591/10

and Gitlab
https://gitlab.xfce.org/thunar-plugins/ ... /issues/16

[FullScale4Me]

I've seen fragments of reports on this. Some were attributed to spaces in share names and others were related to shares in /media sub-folders. The latter lacked user ownership and/or execute permission bit.

Also from my Samba notes archive last saved March 6, 2024.

net usershare' returned error 255

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php ... st11706928

February 21st, 2012 #10
Morbius1
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Re: Another "'net usershare' returned error 255:"

We are talking about 2 entirely different ways to create a samba share:

Classic Shares have share definitions in smb.conf.

Usershares ( aka nautilus-shares ) are created from Nautilus and have share definitions in /var/lib/samba/usershares.

BTW, I can reproduce this error in seconds:

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. Invalid parameter.

by changing one parameter from true to

encrypt passwords = false

That is what you had in your old smb.conf

[CharlesV]

I've seen fragments of reports on this. Some were attributed to spaces in share names and others were related to shares in /media sub-folders. The latter lacked user ownership and/or execute permission bit.

Also from my Samba notes archive last saved March 6, 2024.

Ya, this is a fresh 23.4 install, the folder was created in my home ( Test ), I have tried other folders too. Permissions all good, Thunar throws that message.

MX Samba Config works perfect to share it as well as other folders.

I tried the encrypt passwords = false .. that didnt change the issue.

[CharlesV]

The shares.c file looks like the type found in the source code.

Seems the folk at Manjaro found a way to patch it.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/thunar-shar ... 5/93591/10

and Gitlab
https://gitlab.xfce.org/thunar-plugins/ ... /issues/16

Thanks for looking at it, are you saying the shares.c as "the bad' line in it? or that it HAS been fixed already ?

[m_pav]

Yes it has been fixed, scroll to the bottom of the gitlab issue link.

We're using thunar-shares-plugin 0.3.1, this is fixed in 0.3.2 released a year ago so I suggest asking the packaging team if they can make it available for testing, however, it seems Debian has not picked it up and there may be a reason for that, so we need to tread carefully.

I do recall more than a few posts this year about not being able to get Thunar netshares working properly, and I did try myself at first, but as I do not use smb, I didn't give it much thought.

Might be worthwhile to put in a package request. Not certain we should be putting this into main until we find out why Debian hasn't picked it up, there may be some underlying issue or conflict, so a repackaged plugin might best be used only by those who find it fixes the issue for them.

[CharlesV]

Yes it has been fixed, scroll to the bottom of the gitlab issue link.

We're using thunar-shares-plugin 0.3.1, this is fixed in 0.3.2 released a year ago so I suggest asking the packaging team if they can make it available for testing, however, it seems Debian has not picked it up and there may be a reason for that, so we need to tread carefully.

I do recall more than a few posts this year about not being able to get Thunar netshares working properly, and I did try myself at first, but as I do not use smb, I didn't give it much thought.

Might be worthwhile to put in a package request. Not certain we should be putting this into main until we find out why Debian hasn't picked it up, there may be some underlying issue or conflict, so a repackaged plugin might best be used only by those who find it fixes the issue for them.

Got it! Thank you !